Firm Interests: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade

Cornelia Woll

Published by Cornell University Press 2008

Firm Interests

How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade

Cornelia Woll

In the series Cornell Studies in Political Economy

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711497

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About this book

Firms are central to trade policy-making. Some analysts even suggest that they dictate policy on the basis of their material interests. Cornelia Woll counters these assumptions, arguing that firms do not always know what they want. To be sure, firms...

Author / Editor information

Cornelia Woll is a Research Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po Paris, France, and the winner of the Seymour Martin Lipset Prize from the Society of Comparative Research in 2005.

Reviews

This is a truly excellent book that should take the field of international political economy in promising directions. Firm Interests deserves a wide audience of political scientists, policymakers, economists, and scholars of management, public policy, and business-government relations.... It will help us to make better sense of how firms' managers decide what is best and, as well, how firms attempt to influence policies in their favor.... Woll has engaged in impressive field research to find out what firms wanted and why, combining prodigious secondary research with primary interviews at many of the firms that participated in some of the most important trade debates of the past 20 years.

J. Lawrence Broz, University of California, San Diego:

I love the case studies in this book! On the basis of seventy interviews with key political and business leaders from more than a half-dozen nations, Cornelia Woll reconstructs the international negotiations that led to the liberalization of the global telecommunications and airline markets. She gets into the heads of the relevant actors, using interview data to confirm her intuitions about their motivations and perceived interests.

Mark Blyth, The Johns Hopkins University:

Firm Interests is theoretically ambitious and empirically rich. Political economists typically take the notion of an actor's interests as something to 'do the explaining with' rather than 'something to be explained.' Yet essentially similar material environments seem to engender great variation in the interests real actors hold. Rather than ignore this inconvenient truth, Cornelia Woll confronts it head-on in a major contribution to constructivist scholarship in political economy. Firm Interests shows how actors as diverse as telecommunications firms and airlines can hold interests that cannot be assumed from their asset-baskets or sectoral positions. Rather, firms actively construct ideas about what their interests should be given their interaction with other agents. Firm Interests puts the study of what actors want on much firmer ground.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1. Free-Marketeers despite Themselves? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Business Interests in Political Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
3. When Trade Turns into Regulatory Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
4. Basic Telecommunication Services Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5. International Air Transport Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6. Who Captures Whom? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
7. Business Influence and Democratic Decision-Making Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Appendix: Interviews Conducted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 208
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- Other: 7 line drawings
Keywords: Political Science & Political History; Sociology & Social Science

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Published: July 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501711497